Engineering Manager

StoryToys

Engineering Manager leading a distributed team building mobile apps at StoryToys, an app creator for children. Focusing on Unity and managing developers to deliver quality mobile applications.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SDLCUnity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and coach a team of highly-skilled Unity engineers, ensuring that they are motivated, productive, and producing high-quality work.
Recruit, interview, and hire strong engineering candidates, and guide their onboarding, training, and mentoring.
Regularly meet with your team members individually, evaluate their performance, provide feedback on work goals, and help guide their career development.
Implement best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance.
Champion and lead the creation of effective, timely, and up-to-date documentation to aid in research and development, and prevent the loss of institutional knowledge.
Strike the imperative balance between ensuring that engineering objectives and priorities are being met, whilst also focusing on commercial needs in terms of value, quality and delivery targets.
Understand organizational pain points and identify strategies to take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
Communicate technical matters to internal and external stakeholders to align on and support decisions.
Partner with colleagues in Production to help remove impediments for technical delivery, identify iterative improvements to workflow, and ensure Engineering capacity meets the needs of our product roadmap.
Ensure that all products are developed in line with COPPA regulatory expectations.
Keep an eye outwards for technical innovations, observations, networking opportunities and best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in software engineering as an individual contributor.
5+ years of experience in mobile app development with a strong focus on Unity and C#.
Experience in leading and managing teams of developers, with a track record of delivering high-quality products on time and within budget.
Experience with agile methodologies and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Strong understanding of software development best practices and the software development life cycle.
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proven ability to inspire and motivate team members.
Ideally, experience or an understanding of children's play and early childhood education.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Gaming StoryToys is a company that creates engaging educational apps designed for children, helping them learn, play, and grow through interactive content. With a focus on nurturing curiosity and creativity, StoryToys incorporates beloved characters into well-rounded activities that promote skills, confidence, and healthy digital habits. Over the past decade, the company has developed award-winning applications that have been installed over 200 million times, making learning both fun and effective for young users. Engineering Manager Job not on LinkedIn 🔥 0 minutes ago 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior 🔴 Lead 👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager SDLC Unity Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Lead and coach a team of highly-skilled Unity engineers, ensuring that they are motivated, productive, and producing high-quality work.
Recruit, interview, and hire strong engineering candidates, and guide their onboarding, training, and mentoring.
Regularly meet with your team members individually, evaluate their performance, provide feedback on work goals, and help guide their career development.
Implement best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance.
Champion and lead the creation of effective, timely, and up-to-date documentation to aid in research and development, and prevent the loss of institutional knowledge.
Strike the imperative balance between ensuring that engineering objectives and priorities are being met, whilst also focusing on commercial needs in terms of value, quality and delivery targets.
Understand organizational pain points and identify strategies to take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
Communicate technical matters to internal and external stakeholders to align on and support decisions.
Partner with colleagues in Production to help remove impediments for technical delivery, identify iterative improvements to workflow, and ensure Engineering capacity meets the needs of our product roadmap.
Ensure that all products are developed in line with COPPA regulatory expectations.
Keep an eye outwards for technical innovations, observations, networking opportunities and best practices. 🎯 Requirements
8+ years of experience in software engineering as an individual contributor.
5+ years of experience in mobile app development with a strong focus on Unity and C#.
Experience in leading and managing teams of developers, with a track record of delivering high-quality products on time and within budget.
Experience with agile methodologies and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Strong understanding of software development best practices and the software development life cycle.
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proven ability to inspire and motivate team members.
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Hard Skills & Tools

UnityC#mobile app developmentagile methodologiessoftware development best practicessoftware development life cycleteam managementperformance evaluationdocumentation creationrisk mitigation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationteam motivationfeedback provisioncareer development guidancecollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkinginspirationinterpersonal skills